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Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences. Session 5: Designing an Activity. Quick Write. Sharing your experiences. Describe an interaction with a visitor that you feel went well. What did you do and what was your evidence that it went well?
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Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences Session 5: Designing an Activity
Sharing your experiences • Describe an interaction with a visitor that you feel went well. What did you do and what was your evidence that it went well? • What is something that you feel did not go well and what makes you think that? • What questions or concerns do you have that you would like some feedback from the class about?
Think-Pair-ShareKey Characteristics of Exemplar Activities • What are some characteristics for designing activities that you feel would make them exemplar activities? • What are some characteristics of facilitation that would make an experience with a well-designed activity exemplary?
Critical Review of Exemplar Activities • What is the goal of the activity and science concepts addressed? • What are learners able to do with the activities? How does exploration with materials help learners construct understanding? • What are facilitators able to talk about with the learners? How does the conversation help learners construct understanding? • What particular aspects of the activity made it effective?
Activity Design Starter • What do you want the visitors to learn and experience? (i.e., your goals and concepts) • How will you get learners interested in participating in your activity? • How will you find out what the learners already know? • What kinds of things will the learners actually do while engaging in the activity? • What will you do as a facilitator to help them come to an understanding of the concept?
Activity Development • Learning Cycle as a model for instructional design • Design is an iterative process • Plan, test, refine, repeat • Design around concepts, not facts • A fact is a statement that is known to be true through direct observation. • A concept is an idea that can be applied in multiple contexts to understand and predict outcomes.
Facts vs. Concepts • Carnivore eats meat. • Omnivores eat both plants and animals. • Predators can be omnivores and carnivores. • Animals obtain the energy they need to live from food. • Organisms are connected to other organisms through food webs. • A food web is a diagram of who eats whom in a given area.
Peer Review of Activity Ideas • Present your activity concept to another team • Keep Key Characteristics in mind and note which ones have been incorporated into activities • Questions to talk about: • How does the activity incorporate the Key Characteristics? • What can teams do to refine their activity to incorporate the Key Characteristics?
Homework • Reading • Marine Biology • The Ocean Depths (pp. 361-382). • Paper • How people learn, Chapter 5: Making thinking visible: Talk & argument (pp. 87-108). • Surrounded by science • Chapter 4: Learning with and from others (pp. 63-80). • Activity Development • Activity Design Starter & Science Content Paper due in two weeks